Ash receiver



S. D. LOCKE ASH RECEIVER June 13, 1933.

Filed June 24 INVENTOR. Jjr/vanzu D. Z0046.

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Patented June 13, 1 933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SYLVAINUS D. LOCKE, OF BRIDGE-PORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR '1'0 SMOKADOB MANU- FACTURING CO., INC., OF BLOOMFIELD,

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NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF DELA- ASH RECEIVER Application filed June 24,

This invention relates to ash receivers or receptacles of the type provided with one or more supports upon which a lighted cigarette may be rested. The general object is to provide means whereby a lighted cigarette, once placed upon one of these supports, cannot fall therefrom onto a supporting table or floor by reason of the burning away of the lighted end and the overbalancing of the cigarette occasioned thereby which permits the cigarette to tilt outwardly and to fall therefrom toward the floor or table support. It is well known that a cigarette smoker is disposed, from time to time, to rest his lighted cigarette upon an ash receptacle with the mouth end portion thereof extending outwardly therefrom so that it will not come in contact with any unclean surface. In this position the lighted end portion of the cigarette will extend inwardly so that ashes dropping therefrom will be caught in the receiver. Lighted cigarettes so placed are frequently forgotten, and since the inner end will burn away, it follows that the outer end will eventually overbalance the inner end and the ci 'arette will tilt. upwardly and fall away rom the support and cause damage, sometimes actually causing a conflagration. By my improvement,- this danger is avoided, for, in the event described, the remaining portion of the lighted cigarette when falling from the main support will be caught in and held by a secondary support or pocket where it may continue to burn until entirely consumed or until removed. My invention is susceptible of various modifications, certain preferred forms of which I have shown and will describe herein. It will be understood that other changes in construction and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing- Fig. 1 is a plan view of an ash receptacle constructed to embody my invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 isa fragmentary plan view of the upper portion ofthe device shown in Fig. 1, with the tray portion removed:

1931. Serial No. 546,440.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 1-4 of Fig 1;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view of a modified form of receptacle embodying my invention;

Fig. 6 is a fra mentary sectional view on the line 6-6 of ig. 5;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary sectional view of another modification.

In that form of my invention shown in Figs. 1 to 4, 10 represents a bowl which may constitute a receptacle or receiver for ashes. This bowl is open at the top, as indicated at 12, and in this opening may be removably mounted a tray 11 which itself constitutes an ash receiver or receptacle, which in this form tem orarily receives the ashes from a cigar or cigarette before they are dumped into the receiver 10 or otherwise discarded. Around the opening in the receiver 10 is a seat 13 against which the outer margin of the tray may rest. 17 is a handle of any suitable design projecting from the tray to facilitate moving or dumping the same and replacing it upon the receiver 10. The tray is provided with one or more spaced supports 18-18 upon which a lighted cigarette may be placed so as to be supported between its ends throughout a substantial portion of itslength, whereby the inner lighted end will stand over the tray, so that the ashes dropping therefrom will be caught thereby, and so that the outer or mouth end of the cigarette will stand outwardly from the sup ort and not come into contact with any posslbly soiled surface. By preference, the supports 18 are, in the form of channels arranged radially around the tray 11. These c annels preferably slant downwardly slightly toward the deep part 16 of the tray so that while the cigarette will be held in a substantially horizontal position it will, nevertheless, preferably incline slightly toward the receptacle. edges of the tray between the supports 18, as indicated at 19,'are shaped in such a manner as to make it practically impossible to support the cigarette thereon, thereby guaranteeing that it will be placed properly on one of the designed supports. The outer portions of the tray are curved, as at 20, outside The side i of and adjacent the parts 19 and between the supports in such a manner as to make it practically impossible to rest the cigarette thereon. In Fig. 2 at the left, I have illustrated a freshly lighted cigarette A resting upon one of the supports 18. In the same figure at the right, I have lllustrated a portion of another cigarette B, this cigarette B having been burned away to such a degree that it became overbalanced and fell outwardly from its support 18 and was caught, before it could drop on the floor or table, by a means that I will presently describe. The receiver 10 preferably slants outwardly and upwardly from its base 21 to the situation 22 of its widest diameter, and the top face 23 of the receiver slants outwardly and downwardly from the mouth 12 to said portion of largest diameter. 2424 are radially positioned narrow pockets or compartments shown in the top face 23 of the receiver 10 spaced apart from each other and directly under the outer ends of the radial supports 18-18 so that any cigarette resting on any one of said supports that may tilt outwardly therefrom will be caughtand held in said pocket. Each pocket or compartment 24 is of such a width and length that it will surely catch and retain any cigarette falling down from an overstanding support. 25 represents the side wall and 26 the outer or lower end wall of .a pocket 24. To insure that each support 18 will stand directly over its respective cigarette catching pocket 24 when the tray is placed on the receiver 10, I may provide at one side of the mouth of the receiver one or more protuberances 27 adapted to fit into a corresponding recess in the tray as indicated at 20, this protuberance being so positioned that it will in turn position the tray so that the radial supports 18 will overstand the radial pockets 24.

Referring to that form of my invention shown in Figs. 5 and 6, 10' represents a receiver which constitutes the only ash receptacle, no separate tray being used in this instance. 18'18' represent the cigarette supports. In this case, the cigarette su ports 18, as well as the radial catching poc ets 24', are formed directlyin the upper wall of the receiver 10'.

In the modification shown inFig. 7, I have shown a portion of a receptacle at 10" and a portion of the tray at'll. In this modification, I have shownthe radial cigarette supports at 18" and a radial cigarette catching pocket at 24 on the margin of said tray receptacle just outside of and below one of the cigarettevsupports 18", the function and principle of operation of this element being the same as in the forms previously described.

I claim:

In a device of the character described, an ash receiver having a central ash receiving .f-alling outwardly from said first channel.

SYLVANUS D. LOCKE. 

